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Jimmy

You always have to be learning. You have to contribute your part, you have to do your part and learn how to use the computer, how to use the keyboard… you have to learn how to do new things. So they say, “oh no, learning English is too difficult,” but I say learning English is very important because even so English is now what feeds us, you will get better jobs if you speak English.

This picture is like an artistic painting. It’s like something that’s moved and it is really beautiful because you see it’s like a color that is spread out, painted. It’s like a landscape. A very abstract painting.

This is the parking lot of Casa Latina. Those two parked vans represent those vans would not be parked there; they would be taking workers to different places. But right now they’re parked, which is sad. It means there’s not enough work.

These three people standing in front of Casa Latina, like we all do every day, talking about where we will get a job today. This is what they’re saying, “Oh, SOB, how will I make my money today?” It is a big sadness to get up each day and not make any money, to end up empty and not have any work. You can pray to Jesus and say, “Give us our daily bread,” or you can also say, “Why are you not giving me enough bread?”

They will ask you what do you know how to do, and if you can use the machinery he will hire you to do that work. And if you produce then he will hire you again and he will pay you. If you don’t produce, then, well that employer will say, “OK, have a good day, bye bye,” and they will not call you again.

These are all my friends at the assembly here at Casa Latina. I’ve worked with this guy and with that guy, and with that guy, and all these people. We all get up very early to come looking for our dollar.

Casa Latina is gold for me, because from here I started, and I have also helped myself. I have learned the language, it has given me an understanding of many things that I didn’t use to have. I know when somebody new comes here they are helped a lot.

This is a building where people go, it’s like a church. You go in there and you can rest, and they have bathrooms, and you can sit there and relax and no one kicks you out. It was really a nice picture because you can see the plate with a clock and below that there is the door, and some people go in and out that door to smoke or to hang out by the door. That’s a shelter and that’s where people eat.